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the st john's daily star ketmfoundland volume 11 i 3.00 per annum monday september 25,1916 price one cent no 223 fifteen zeppelins raid great britain british guns bring down two of raiding airships crew of one zeppelin killed and that of another capturedâ€”three zeppelins reach outskirts of londonâ€”british casualties from raid 28 kill ed and 9^lrijured ondox sept 25 in'a raid over the eastern counties of england last night two zeppelins were brought down of fifteen which took part in the raid according to an official statement today one airship was brought down in flames in essex and another fell on the east coast the losses of the german crews were twenty-eight the attack was made from the north and southeast about midnight and was beaten off by the anti-aircraft defences the crew of one ship numbering twenty-two were captured and of the second airship all the crew were killed three zeppelins also reached the outskirts of london two from the southeast the other from the east twenty eight were killed and ninety-nine injured by bombs drop ped in the south and southeastern districts huge air fleet in latest raid attack on london beaten off by aero planes and anti-aircraft guns london sept 25.â€”one german airship and probably another was drought down during a raid over the eastern counties of england and the outskirts of london last night ac ording to an official statement one airship was brought down it â– he southern part of essex and it was \ reported another fell on the ec?e j coast the text of the statement fol j lows : an attack by hostile airships war j nade on lincolnshire and the eastern | counties and on the outskirts of lon j don the latter attack made from the northeast and southeast about mid j light was beaten off by our anti-air-1 craft defences one airship was brought down i 'â– lames in the southern part of essex report has been received that another fell on the essex coast the latter report is yet unconfirmed no reports of the casualties or dan age have yet been received the official statement announcing he zeppelin attack on london said \\. 12.15 p.m 14 or 15 airships pariici , oated in an attack on britain las , light the southeastern and eastern and east and midland counties of lin colnshire were the principal localities visited an attack on london was carjiec out by two airships from the east be tween 1 and 2 a.m and by one airshir from the east between 12 and 1 a.m aeroplanes were sent up and we op ened fire from anti-aircraft guns o the defences the raiders being driven off bombs were dropped however in the southern and southeastern districts and it is regretted that 28 persons were \ killed and 99 injured two of the raiders were brought down in essex they were both large airships of a new pattern one of them fell in flames and was destroyed to gether with the crew of twenty two officers and men the second was cap tuerd trailed reports of casualties and damage have not yet been received outside of london district two per-i sons were kiued and eleven injured in an east midland town it is feared two other bodies may be buried in the ruins a missile dropped by hostile air craft caused numerous fires and de molished or damaged a large number of residences and stores to to to to to to to balkan activities london sept 23.â€”0n the struma r front our patrols successfully raided | enemy trenches in the neighbourhood r of kenarjah causing casualties sayr . the\ofÂ£cial report of to-day in regard to the macedonian cam ; paign our naval aircraft bombarded ; an enemy transport near drama ap parently with good results on the doiran front we raided ger man trenches at three points . 127 casualties in london area 23 killed and 99 injured by the raid ing zeppelins i ondon sept 25â€”the casualties in the metropolitan areaf acording to an official compilation are,as fol lows killed men 17 women 8 chil dren 3 total 28 injured men 45 wo men 37 children 17 total 99 no reports have been received of any military damage messages from correspondents at various points between london and the essex coast describe the delight of watchers when the raiding airship was brought down in flames about i o'clock this the people rush ed from their hourr/to points of vant age when the sound of guns was heard and watched the airship as it proceed ed east constantly in the glare of con centrated searchlights with shells burst ing around it in such close proximity that the watchers were convinced hits must have been scored suddenly there was a flash then burst of flame and a storm of cheers as the blazing airship descended slowly a huge ball of fire still outlined in the rays of the searchlights tototototototo loyal speech made by maori new zealand aboriginal declares de votion of his race to the empire n.z sept 23â€”a striking speech was made at the posing session of the house of repre sentatives of the dominion parliament sy dr pomare member of the cabinet and maori one of the aboriginals of new zealand a resolution was before the house expressing parliament's in flexibility and determination to con inue the war to a successful conclu sion when dr pomare rose and said to-day as the gentle breezes stir the grasses over the graves of mine and ours wherever a maorian hears the moan of the wind whenever he hears he boom of the guns it reminds him hat way beyond the seas revenge has got to be brought about for the dead for that reason the maori's determina i tion to end the war victoriously is j just as inflexible as that of the white man one result of the war will be the cohesion of the empire and an under standing between the different races under the british flag tototototototo g-raeco-bulgarian situation is tense athens sept 25.â€”postal and tele i graphic communications between gre ece and austria riave again been sus pended owing to the capture by the â– entente forces of fiorina it is offi i cially announced that the bulgars evac â€¢ uatirig fiorina have made prisoners the greek infantry there irritation with bulgaria is growing rapidly here big gains by the british in courcelette region german trenches captured on a half-mile front - further advance by the british made south of the ancre hun counter attacks repulsed deadly work of british artillery don sept 2 germaa trenches on a front ol about half a mile east of in the somme region were captured by flie british last night the war i myice announced today south of the ancre says thjb official stat(jjn<ent a furth [\ ance was made last night'by our troops east of courcellette a strongly fortified . system of enemy trenches was captured and here our line was ad vanced on a front of half a mile west oi mouquette farm the enemy counter-at tacked during the night and all yesterday with great vio lence but was driven back by our fire with heavy losses there was considerable artillery activity during the night on many parts of the battle front and east of bethunc an enemy ammunition dump was exploded by our artillery fire - allied advantages london sept 25.â€”a british offici al statement issued at midnight says that south of the ancre we continued to improve our positions pushing de tachments forward at places into the enemy's advanced trenches during a bombardment by our ar tillery of one section of the enemy front yesterday ten hostile gun pits were seen to be destroyed and fourteen everely*damaged ' five ammunition pits were blown up today a big fire was caused by our artillery in a village much used by the enemy's transport for supply purposes there was great artillery activity yesterday a highly successful raid by about fifty of our machines was carried out on an important railway junction 40 planes destroyed in day's operations aerial activities chief feature of fighting on west frontâ€”brit ish and french bring dowii many machines no land operations of any importance en any cf the fronts london sept 23â€”aerial activity during which two zeppelins were brought down rud more than two german french and british aeroplanes r.et with dis:.:>tcr in fights in'the air forms the chief news feature cf the war there having been no land battles of great proportions or startling result in any of the various theatre , the zeppelins met their fate at the hands of the british and anti-aircraft jtis on the eastern co::t of england in escc cfter a fleet cf 13 or 15 cf hem had visited london and othei points en saturday night droppinr oombs one of the machines with its entire rcw was burned in midair the other vas brought down damaged and itf crew made prisoners in the metropolitan district of lon jon 28 men women and children were killed and 99 wounded outside london two persons met death and 11 were injured considerable materia damage was done on london and out ying districts by bombs big number destroyed paris reports french airmen in bat les in the air have accounter for 26 leroplanes while berlin records bring ing down 24 allied machines 20 oi them on the somme front five german machines were destroyed by the british on saturday and 2 others driven down jamaged while five british machines ire missing after combats in the air in roumania the fighting has died jown*somewhat in the dobrudja region vhile on the trcnsylvania front an lttack by the roumanians on the vul can pass which was repulsed is the nly engagement reported british troops fighting ( along the struma have crossed the river at three points and taken the town of jenmita from the bulgarians while the serbs have made additional progress north west of kaimackelan and the french to the northwest of fiorina sofia reports the capture of a moun tain crest south of the village of popla by the bulgarians the usual artillery bombardments ! and isolated infantry engagements have taken place on the austro-italian front violent austrian attacks in the carsc ; region failed according to rome bu the italian war office admits the blow ring up of a part of mount cimeon b lan austrian mine and the relinquish i menls of the position by the italians vienna says that 427 prisoners fell into the hands of the austrians as result of this operation and that an entire italian company was buried in the ex plosion , . berlin indulges in air dreams 7his picture reproduced from ulk a berlin publication shows how the german p pers misrepresent to their readers th effects of the zeppelin raids on britain claiming for them an ascendancyin the air that the reciilts of saturday's raid prove they do not possess hun aerodromes are bombarder subject german lines to continua artillery-and airship attacks london sept 24.â€”south of the ancre ten hostile gun pits were destroy ed and fourteen others severely dam aged and five ammunition pits blown up by our artillery great aerial activity is reported a raid<was made by fifty machines on a railway junction much damage was done and two hostile airships were al so destroyed and five others damaged says a british official report british noble killed london sept 23.â€”lieut richard philip stanhope heir to the earl of stanhope has been killed in action drince albert second son o king george who has been invali ed home from the navy in which he it a midshipman because of severe ab dominal trouble the prince was re cently recommended for commenda tion for service allies gain in balkans british attack and defeat strong bul gar forces while the serbs also make some gains aris sept 25.â€”british troops yes terday attacked strong bulgarian orces north of kopriva in greek ma cedonia says an official french state ment issued today the serbians made northwest of kaimackelan took some prisoners northwest of l&rina the french forces advanced repulsed a strong bulgarian attack i2hill 150 feistern armyâ€”the british troops left bank of the struma attack id strong bulgarian detachment nortfrfof kopriva towards lake tahi ios an artillery duel was resumed iolently from mount beles to the var iar rijver ea|tj of cerna the serbians made progress northwest of kaimackelan md tpbk prisoners oiqiur left wing violent bulgarian ouno|-attacks were repulsed in the icinlwof hilplso with heavy enemy losse^j slight progress northwest of ffimna 1500 teutons :| prisoners in battle - sept 25â€”the russians and are engaged in stubborn battles at various places on the ffg?sian and galician fronts from the pÂ»t>et marshes to the roumanian frontrs according to a russian official reporiljssued to-day hundred austro-germans prisoners fighting yesterday on sereth river pas sept 25.â€”there are violent artillery duels in the bouchavesnes and irolloy berny regions no infantry action-is reported british give enemy no rest british aviators pay business visits to hun airship depots i ondon sept 23â€”british naval aero planes have successfully bombard ed german aerodromes at several points in belgium the admiralty an nounces to-day the statement says the enemy aerodromes at st denis were attacked yesterday by a squadron oi naval aeroplanes and the results appeared to be highly satisfactory reliable reports now at hand show that very considerable damage and many casualties had been caused by previous bombardments of this , objec tive in the early hours of this morning the enemy aerodromes at chistelles and handasne were heavily bombard ed by a naval squadron all the*machines returned safely i teneral de wet commander-in chief of the boer forces of the orange free state in the south afri can war who has just demonstrated his loyalty to the british empire by notifying the authorities of a plot to organize another uprising he him self headed a rebellion a year ago but was leniently treated by the british continued on page 2 â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦Â»â™¦â™¦â™¦Â»Â»â™¦Â»Â»Â»â™¦â™¦��™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦+ l blankets i white cotton w ] i . al 65c per lb j i white cotton j j j from 1.30 fo 2.90 pair i i 1 | j from 1.40 to 1.80 pair ; i \ / 1 jwoolnap ; i \ from 2 jto 2.60 pair wool from 3.80 to 13.50 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the st john's daily star ketmfoundland volume 11 i 3.00 per annum monday september 25,1916 price one cent no 223 fifteen zeppelins raid great britain british guns bring down two of raiding airships crew of one zeppelin killed and that of another capturedâ€”three zeppelins reach outskirts of londonâ€”british casualties from raid 28 kill ed and 9^lrijured ondox sept 25 in'a raid over the eastern counties of england last night two zeppelins were brought down of fifteen which took part in the raid according to an official statement today one airship was brought down in flames in essex and another fell on the east coast the losses of the german crews were twenty-eight the attack was made from the north and southeast about midnight and was beaten off by the anti-aircraft defences the crew of one ship numbering twenty-two were captured and of the second airship all the crew were killed three zeppelins also reached the outskirts of london two from the southeast the other from the east twenty eight were killed and ninety-nine injured by bombs drop ped in the south and southeastern districts huge air fleet in latest raid attack on london beaten off by aero planes and anti-aircraft guns london sept 25.â€”one german airship and probably another was drought down during a raid over the eastern counties of england and the outskirts of london last night ac ording to an official statement one airship was brought down it â– he southern part of essex and it was \ reported another fell on the ec?e j coast the text of the statement fol j lows : an attack by hostile airships war j nade on lincolnshire and the eastern | counties and on the outskirts of lon j don the latter attack made from the northeast and southeast about mid j light was beaten off by our anti-air-1 craft defences one airship was brought down i 'â– lames in the southern part of essex report has been received that another fell on the essex coast the latter report is yet unconfirmed no reports of the casualties or dan age have yet been received the official statement announcing he zeppelin attack on london said \\. 12.15 p.m 14 or 15 airships pariici , oated in an attack on britain las , light the southeastern and eastern and east and midland counties of lin colnshire were the principal localities visited an attack on london was carjiec out by two airships from the east be tween 1 and 2 a.m and by one airshir from the east between 12 and 1 a.m aeroplanes were sent up and we op ened fire from anti-aircraft guns o the defences the raiders being driven off bombs were dropped however in the southern and southeastern districts and it is regretted that 28 persons were \ killed and 99 injured two of the raiders were brought down in essex they were both large airships of a new pattern one of them fell in flames and was destroyed to gether with the crew of twenty two officers and men the second was cap tuerd trailed reports of casualties and damage have not yet been received outside of london district two per-i sons were kiued and eleven injured in an east midland town it is feared two other bodies may be buried in the ruins a missile dropped by hostile air craft caused numerous fires and de molished or damaged a large number of residences and stores to to to to to to to balkan activities london sept 23.â€”0n the struma r front our patrols successfully raided | enemy trenches in the neighbourhood r of kenarjah causing casualties sayr . the\ofÂ£cial report of to-day in regard to the macedonian cam ; paign our naval aircraft bombarded ; an enemy transport near drama ap parently with good results on the doiran front we raided ger man trenches at three points . 127 casualties in london area 23 killed and 99 injured by the raid ing zeppelins i ondon sept 25â€”the casualties in the metropolitan areaf acording to an official compilation are,as fol lows killed men 17 women 8 chil dren 3 total 28 injured men 45 wo men 37 children 17 total 99 no reports have been received of any military damage messages from correspondents at various points between london and the essex coast describe the delight of watchers when the raiding airship was brought down in flames about i o'clock this the people rush ed from their hourr/to points of vant age when the sound of guns was heard and watched the airship as it proceed ed east constantly in the glare of con centrated searchlights with shells burst ing around it in such close proximity that the watchers were convinced hits must have been scored suddenly there was a flash then burst of flame and a storm of cheers as the blazing airship descended slowly a huge ball of fire still outlined in the rays of the searchlights tototototototo loyal speech made by maori new zealand aboriginal declares de votion of his race to the empire n.z sept 23â€”a striking speech was made at the posing session of the house of repre sentatives of the dominion parliament sy dr pomare member of the cabinet and maori one of the aboriginals of new zealand a resolution was before the house expressing parliament's in flexibility and determination to con inue the war to a successful conclu sion when dr pomare rose and said to-day as the gentle breezes stir the grasses over the graves of mine and ours wherever a maorian hears the moan of the wind whenever he hears he boom of the guns it reminds him hat way beyond the seas revenge has got to be brought about for the dead for that reason the maori's determina i tion to end the war victoriously is j just as inflexible as that of the white man one result of the war will be the cohesion of the empire and an under standing between the different races under the british flag tototototototo g-raeco-bulgarian situation is tense athens sept 25.â€”postal and tele i graphic communications between gre ece and austria riave again been sus pended owing to the capture by the â– entente forces of fiorina it is offi i cially announced that the bulgars evac â€¢ uatirig fiorina have made prisoners the greek infantry there irritation with bulgaria is growing rapidly here big gains by the british in courcelette region german trenches captured on a half-mile front - further advance by the british made south of the ancre hun counter attacks repulsed deadly work of british artillery don sept 2 germaa trenches on a front ol about half a mile east of in the somme region were captured by flie british last night the war i myice announced today south of the ancre says thjb official stat(jjntcr in fights in'the air forms the chief news feature cf the war there having been no land battles of great proportions or startling result in any of the various theatre , the zeppelins met their fate at the hands of the british and anti-aircraft jtis on the eastern co::t of england in escc cfter a fleet cf 13 or 15 cf hem had visited london and othei points en saturday night droppinr oombs one of the machines with its entire rcw was burned in midair the other vas brought down damaged and itf crew made prisoners in the metropolitan district of lon jon 28 men women and children were killed and 99 wounded outside london two persons met death and 11 were injured considerable materia damage was done on london and out ying districts by bombs big number destroyed paris reports french airmen in bat les in the air have accounter for 26 leroplanes while berlin records bring ing down 24 allied machines 20 oi them on the somme front five german machines were destroyed by the british on saturday and 2 others driven down jamaged while five british machines ire missing after combats in the air in roumania the fighting has died jown*somewhat in the dobrudja region vhile on the trcnsylvania front an lttack by the roumanians on the vul can pass which was repulsed is the nly engagement reported british troops fighting ( along the struma have crossed the river at three points and taken the town of jenmita from the bulgarians while the serbs have made additional progress north west of kaimackelan and the french to the northwest of fiorina sofia reports the capture of a moun tain crest south of the village of popla by the bulgarians the usual artillery bombardments ! and isolated infantry engagements have taken place on the austro-italian front violent austrian attacks in the carsc ; region failed according to rome bu the italian war office admits the blow ring up of a part of mount cimeon b lan austrian mine and the relinquish i menls of the position by the italians vienna says that 427 prisoners fell into the hands of the austrians as result of this operation and that an entire italian company was buried in the ex plosion , . berlin indulges in air dreams 7his picture reproduced from ulk a berlin publication shows how the german p pers misrepresent to their readers th effects of the zeppelin raids on britain claiming for them an ascendancyin the air that the reciilts of saturday's raid prove they do not possess hun aerodromes are bombarder subject german lines to continua artillery-and airship attacks london sept 24.â€”south of the ancre ten hostile gun pits were destroy ed and fourteen others severely dam aged and five ammunition pits blown up by our artillery great aerial activity is reported a raidet marshes to the roumanian frontrs according to a russian official reporiljssued to-day hundred austro-germans prisoners fighting yesterday on sereth river pas sept 25.â€”there are violent artillery duels in the bouchavesnes and irolloy berny regions no infantry action-is reported british give enemy no rest british aviators pay business visits to hun airship depots i ondon sept 23â€”british naval aero planes have successfully bombard ed german aerodromes at several points in belgium the admiralty an nounces to-day the statement says the enemy aerodromes at st denis were attacked yesterday by a squadron oi naval aeroplanes and the results appeared to be highly satisfactory reliable reports now at hand show that very considerable damage and many casualties had been caused by previous bombardments of this , objec tive in the early hours of this morning the enemy aerodromes at chistelles and handasne were heavily bombard ed by a naval squadron all the*machines returned safely i teneral de wet commander-in chief of the boer forces of the orange free state in the south afri can war who has just demonstrated his loyalty to the british empire by notifying the authorities of a plot to organize another uprising he him self headed a rebellion a year ago but was leniently treated by the british continued on page 2 â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦Â»â™¦â™¦â™¦Â»Â»â™¦Â»Â»Â»â™¦â™¦��™¦â™¦â™¦â™¦+ l blankets i white cotton w ] i . al 65c per lb j i white cotton j j j from 1.30 fo 2.90 pair i i 1 | j from 1.40 to 1.80 pair ; 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